Good conversation with Robyn today about the point I was making earlier. She suggested that I was trying to move away from diagnostic, analytic accounts of research, to creative, productive perceptions of research. She was not so comfortable with my use of the word ‘propositional’ since it still implied a trying to propose, [...]
The difference between the paper I wrote for the Futureground conference and the paper I presented…perfectly illustrates the value of research through designing. Thought I would include both of them…not because anyone should bother reading both.
The formal paper presents a theoretical argument for visual accounts of research…and then the Conference Presentation Script explains how [...]
I have begun work on my first visual essay for publication. It is interesting watching myself design and write the material. I am designing it for the Design Research Journal hosted by AGDA…and as far as I know they have never received a visual essay - even though they say they accept them. Sage’s Visual [...]
Around the same time that I presented some of Dave’s (studio colleague)research at Futureground, Terry (Rosenberg) was also out here talking with Dave about his research. One thing I witnessed both times was how constructive Dave’s process drawings are as a spring board to discuss his work.
When I presented at the conference, Norm Sheehan [...]
Clive Dilnot came to my Futureground presentation…which was great because we got to talk further about it afterward. Obviously felt self-conscious citing him, with him in the room…but curious that I would because that only confirms that I am aware how open for interpretation the written word is. My self-consciousness is founded on the idea [...]